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| Jagdish Tytler | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1944-08-17) 17 August 1944 (age 80) New Delhi |
| Political party | INC |
| Residence | New Delhi |
| Website | www.jagdishtytler.com |
| As of February 15, 2010 | |
Jagdish Tytler (b. August 17, 1944 as Jagdish Kapoor) is a seniorIndian National Congress politician, and former member of Indian Parliament. He was the Indian Union Minister of State for Overseas Indian Affairs, a position he resigned from after an official commission of inquiry noted the 'balance of probability' indicated is responsible for inciting and leading murderous mobs against the Sikh community in Delhi during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, a charge he denies. The CBI has also given him clean chit.
Early days
Tytler was born (b. August 17, 1944 as Jagdish Singh Kapoor) in Gujranwala (now in Pakistan) He seems to have changed his last name to Tytler after James Douglas Tytler who brought him up. .
He was brought up by the eminent educationist, James Douglas Tytler, who was the founder of many public schools including the Delhi Public School and the Summer Fields School.
He was highly influenced by Mr. James Douglas Tytler and therefore, to show his gratitude towards Mr. James Douglas Tytler he acquired his surname but he never converted to Christianity(His marriage was performed according to Sikh traditions). Since then Jagdish Kapoor was called Jagdish Tytler.
Active in the Congress' youth organisation and a disciple of Sanjay Gandhi, he was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1980. He served as a Union Minister first in the Civil Aviation department and then in the Labor department. He was re-elected in 1991 and served as the Union Minister of State for Surface Transport. In 2004, he was re-elected to the Lok Sabha.
1984 anti-Sikh pograms
The official report of the Nanavati Commission of the Government of India on the 1984 Anti-Sikh riots found 'credible evidence' against Tytler, saying he 'very probably' had a hand in organising the attacks. The Indian government, however, decided not to prosecute Jagdish Tytler due to lack of concrete evidence.
Tytler claimed innocence, and maintained that it was a case of mistaken identity. Tytler had not been named by eight earlier inquiry commissions setup to investigate the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. On August 10, 2005, his resignation from the Union Council of Ministers was accepted by the President of India on the recommendation of Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh.
On April, 2004 the Indian National Congress Party announced Sajjan Kumar, Jagdish Tytler, R.K. Anand and others allegedly involved in the anti-Sikh riots, as its candidates for Indian Parliament elections for constituencies in and around Delhi. Sajjan Kumar, R.K.Anand, Darshan Sharstri and H.K.L.Bhagat were accused by several independent commissions of inquiry of being complicit in the riots, including the People's Union for Civil Liberties, the People's Union for Democratic Rights and the Citizen's Justice Committee.
The G.T. Nanavati Commission, which is now looking into the riots, continues to receive affidavits from victims with details of the activities of Sajjan, Anand and H.K.L.Bhagat. Tytler became minister of state with independent charge of non-resident affairs, a post which he relinquished under duress, following the Nanavati Commission's report.
Justice G.T. Nanavati said that Jagdish Tytler stands in a different category as evidence against him is not that strong.
Remarks against Phoolka
During an interview of Tytler and advocate H. S. Phoolka on NDTV in 2004, Tytler had accused Phoolka of blackmailing him and demanding money from him. Phoolka had filed the case at the Ludhiana court against Tytler accusing him of making defamatory remarks in programmes telecast on NDTV news channel. Harvinder Singh Phoolka, a senior advocate is noted for spearheading legal battle to gain justice for the victims of 1984 Anti-Sikh massacre.
Recently, Tytler was granted bail in defamation case filed by Phoolka.
In an interview to CNN-IBN, Justice Nanavati says the evidence against Jagdish Tytler is not that strong..
Reopening of the case in 2007
India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) closed all cases against Jagdish Tytler in November 2007 for his alleged criminal conspiracy to engineer riots against Sikhs in the aftermath of Indira Gandhi’s assassination on October 31, 1984. CBI submitted a report to the Delhi court which stated that no evidence or witness was found to corroborate the allegations against Tytler of leading murderous mobs during 1984 . It was also alleged in the court that then member of the Indian Parliament Jagdish Tytler was complaining to his supporters about relatively "small" number of sikhs killed in his parliamentary constituency Delhi Sadar, which in his opinion had undermined his position in the ruling Indian National Congress party of India.
However in December 2007, a witness Jasbir Singh, who lives in California, appeared on several private television news channels in India, and stated that he was never contacted by Central Bureau of Investigation. India's main opposition party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) demanded an explanation from the minister in charge of CBI in Indian Parliament. However, Minister of State for Personnel Suresh Pachouri, who is in charge of department of CBI, and was present in the parliament session refused to make a statement.
However, a team of CBI went to California and found that Jasbir Singh's statements were concocted.
On December 18 2007, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Delhi court Mr. Sanjeev Jain, who had earlier dismissed the case after CBI submitted a misleading report in his court; ordered India's Central Bureau of Investigation to reopen cases relating to 1984 Anti-Sikh riots against Jagdish Tytler.
December 2008
In December 2008, a two member CBI team was sent to New York to record the statement of eyewitness, Jasbir Singh. The witness have stated that they saw Jagdish Tytler lead a mob during the riots, but did not want to come to India as he feared for their security.
However, the CBI team found that Jasbir Singh's statements were concocted and false.
Clean chit by CBI in 2009
Mr. Jagdish Tytler is a murderer so are all people associated with him who are trying to protect him - the CBI and Congress are criminals who do not get it. When the time comes, justice will be served to these people.
Shoeing incident instigated by clean chit to Tytler
On 7 April 2009, India's home minister P. Chidambaram was shoed by Jarnail Singh, a Sikh journalist during a press conference in Delhi on the issue of clean chit to Jagdish Tytler. Singh, who works at the Hindi daily Dainik Jagaran was dissatisfied with Chidamabaram's answer to a question on the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) clean chit to Jagdish Tytler on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
Denial of Lok Sabha ticket
After this shoe throwing incident, Jagidsh Tytler pressurized by congress party high command to withdraw his candidature from the Lok Sabha 2009 elections. Jadgish Tytler accused the media of victimizing him through a media trial. Tytler blamed the Shiromani Akali Dal and his enemies within the Congress party for creating the controversy during elections.
CBI reiterates clean chit to Tytler
The CBI concluded its arguments before a Delhi court by supporting its closure report giving a clean chit to former Union Minister Jagdish Tytler in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case and witness’ statements as “false and concocted.”
“The version of (witness) Jasbir Singh is absolutely false and concocted. He has made statements with an intention to falsely implicate Tytler,” CBI Prosecutor Sanjay Kumar submitted before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Rakesh Pandit.
The CBI counsel submitted that they have examined the father, brother and son of Surender Singh, another witness and they all have said that he was not giving correct statements.
Mr. Sanjay Kumar also referred to the statement of Mr. Jasbir Singh in which he claimed to have seen Mr. Tytler in an Ambassador car.
The CBI counsel said that the former Union Minister possessed no such vehicle at that time.
The statement of Mr. Jasbir Singh that he had been given shelter by Succha Singh was termed false by the CBI counsel who said that the witness had denied knowing him before the probe agency.
CBI had also read out statements of Surinder Singh’s relatives and other witnesses like Harinder, Harbhajan, Kuljeet Singh Duggal to reiterate its stand that Mr. Tytler was not among the rioting mob surrounding Gurudwara Pulbangash in north Delhi after the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
The probe agency had earlier produced a CD before the court to claim that Mr. Tytler was present at the residence of Indira Gandhi and not at the riot site.
CBI had on April 2 sought to close the case against Mr. Tytler claiming lack of sufficient evidence against him.
See also
References
- http://jagdishtytlerissikhinorigin.blogspot.com/
- http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/1984-anti-Sikh-riots-case-CBI-concludes-arguments/articleshow/5556408.cms
- http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=1971 Bio-Data of Jagdish Singh Tytler
- Bio-Data of Shri Jagdish Tytler. Press Information Bureau, Government of India.
- NDTV Interview of Justice G.T. Nanavati
- NDTV Interview of HS Phoolka and Jagdish Tytler
- 25 years after 1984 riots, victims' lawyer soldiers on
- Tytler granted bail in defamation case
- Justice Nanavati talks to IBN-CNN
- Fresh probe into India politician
- Re-probe Tytler’s role: Court
- BJP to govt: Clear stand on anti-Sikh riots' witness
- 1984 riots: CBI to re-investigate Tytler's role
- Anti Sikh riots witness to give statement to CBI in US
- The Times of India
- Jagdish Tytler withdrew from candidature
External links
- "United States Should Not Let Tytler Enter Country" Statement by New York Representative Edolphus Towns in US Congress.
- Jagdish Tytler
- "I am innocent: Tytler" - rediff.com article dated August 8, 2005
- NDTV X-Factor discussion about involvement of HKL Bhagat, Tytler, Sajjan Kumar and Congress Party in 1984 riots
- After Apology, Congress Tries to Scuttle Sikh Massacre Report
- NDTV Interview of HS Phoolka and Jagdish Tytler